During a week of our last month in Taiwan, we took a mini vacation down to the southern point of the island and stopped for one hot, muggy day at this amusement park. I can't remember where it even was or what it was called, but will post some pictures of our day there. The place was practically empty and there was hardly any waiting time for the rides. The only drawback for me was that I was just barely pregnant and didn't get to ride on ANYTHING, and was taking all kinds of pills that made me drowsy to help me STAY pregnant, and it was super sticky and moist in the air. Most of my pictures have a humid look to them. Regardless, it was a fun day, and our first vacation with our new daughter. Enjoy! I'll try to get more vacation pictures posted later this week to try to catch up the months that I wasn't blogging.
I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
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